Customers

Minesoft deals with top corporations, national Patent Offices and specialised IP Patent Attorney & Law firms around the world. Minesoft retains close links with clients and continually enhances products and services according to client feedback, taking pride in providing a fast, effective and efficient service in a global, competitive market.

Testimonials

"Patbase is easy to use and when displaying information, it is precise and clear. Patbase simply fulfils our needs and demands"  Noora Kultaranta, UPM

"Patbase has become my main search tool for patents. Its unique features help me search effectively. Saves me a lot of time too as I have direct access to the patent families collected together."  J L Anil Kumar, Philips

"We need a high-speed retrieval of full text patent documents from the Internet, especially from the Public Server of the European Patent Office, because of the large coverage of facsimile documents available - Patent Order is an efficient and cost-effective solution now offered to more and more Intranet Users at Siemens."  Siemens

"In our opinion, the PatentOrder intranet solution is a very efficient and professional way of distributing patent specifications throughout our organization at low cost.

In order to speed up the innovation process, it is important for Solvay to have access very rapidly to the patent information. Before the installation of PatentOrder, all patent specification orders were addressed to different internal libraries, holding limited internal patent collections. Usually an ordered patent specification being available internally was delivered within 2 or 3 days. PatentOrder now allows for all Solvay's end users to have access to the ordered documents within a few minutes.

PatentOrder also allows for a very flexible management of archived documents and an easy electronic distribution of patent documents without having to send large PDF files. Moreover, PatentOrder is remarkably customizable. For example, its integration into an in-house database web interface was realized in a few hours.

Finally, the really excellent support offered by MineSoft has to be pointed out."   Solvay

"Minesoft/PatBase provides outstanding customer service. Not only is the staff highly responsive, they really listen to what customers need and strive to accommodate requested improvements over time. The organization also places a high value on improvement. Hence, they are responsive -- much more so than some of the larger data providers."   Greg Galloway, Falco-Archer Inc.

"For patent professionals and technical research staff, the recent availability on the Web of free patent specifications promised to revolutionise the often tedious process of retrieving full patent documents. In theory the former route of submitting requests to a document supply department and waiting for a printed paper copy (from a CD-ROM or via fax delivery) had been streamlined. It took the arrival of MineSoft's PatentOrder software to automate smoothly the whole process and make it possible for anyone at a company site to receive quickly at his/her workstation a single electronic PDF file of a desired patent. This elegant and effective solution is widely appreciated at BP Amoco."   BP/Amoco

"What I find very convenient with PatentTracker is that the service does not only cover European patent applications, it also allows me to automatically monitor new members of patent families and national applications in Canada, Germany, Great Britain and the US. It is very easy to set up new watches and to manage ongoing ones through the web access. I find the system very reliable and I appreciate the personal service from the Minesoft staff." Marjolaine Thulin, Awapatent

"We, at Siemens, are highly demanding users of patent databases . Patbase has been able to satisfy most of our requirements and expectations. The coverage of patent literature is comprehensive. The functions available in the web interface have been well-chosen and successfully implemented.

The following features are seen to be of particular benefit:

- Searchability of several classification systems
- Hyperlinking classifications, drawings and patent numbers to other internet sources
- Display format of retrieved records can be tailored to our preferences
- Advanced highlighting of search terms in full text documents enable these documents to be evaluated effectively"   Roland Herberger, Siemens

French

"De tous les logiciels que j'ai utilisés jusqu'à présent dans mon métier de documentaliste brevets, en près de 20 ans d'exercice, ou que j'ai vus en démonstration (ou testés), je dois dire que c'est PATBASE qui a pour ainsi dire immédiatement, dès les tous premiers instants où j'ai commencé à l'utiliser, répondu à mes attentes, à savoir: la convivialité, la puissance du système, l'étendue des possibilités (notamment d'interrogation rapide des brevets cités-citants), la rapidité avec laquelle les réponses s'affichent de manière très synthétique grâce en plus à une visualisation en couleur des concepts clés. C'est en plus un plaisir d'utiliser quotidiennement cet outil en étant pour ainsi dire assuré d'avoir fait le tour complet d'une question, dans un minimum de temps et pour un coût modique en comparaison des autres logiciels du marché."  Pierre Chocat, Saint Gobain

German

"Patbase ist für uns ein wichtiges Werkzeug zum Durchführen von Patentrecherchen. Neben den vielen Such-, Anzeige und Exportmöglichkeiten im großen Volltextdatenbestand von Patbase, schätzen wir besonders die umfangreichen Suchen nach Zitierungen und die hilfreichen Verlinkungen aus Patbase zu anderen Datenquellen wie Rechtsstand, Klassenbeschreibungen, Mosaikansichten usw."  Martin Meier, Audi

  Our clients include

• BP
• 3M
• Solvay
• Syngenta
• MARS
• Glaxo SmithKline
• Pfizer
• Kimberly-Clark
• BASF
• Siemens
• Volvo
• British Patent Office
• Danish Patent Office
• Marks & Clerk
• Audi
• Bayer
• Daimler Chrylser
• Unilever
• Albihns AB